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The Poktulum Catchment Area
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drift of wind caught one of my silerons' (wings), and I plunged 300 fest to the earth, my machine¦ Lurning over and over. I was
A Game that Crips. fortunate enough to escape with
To read of ice at homo must Rarely does Hongkong have my life, but my right orm was The fortnightly meeting of givemany Scotsmen in the Colony the pleasure of entertaining so broken in two places, my nose the Sanitary Board was held something of a heartaolie; for a well known a man-as Mr. A was smashed, and I was otherwise held yesterday afternoon when number of them were once curlers, Kouzminsky, who is the son of an injured that it was three Mr. D. W. Tratman presided, and there are few games that grip the President of the Russian months before I was able to leave There were also present the a man like this game on the ice. Movements Suspended,
Hon. Mr. W. Chatham, Col. Irwin, City business men tell how, when Owing to the continued rain, Senate, n nephew of the late the hospital."
In speaking of his uncle, Masara Chan Kai Ming, Ng Hon a keen frost sota in letters to all movements of troops to compl Count. Tolstoi, and an aviator are suspended until further whose record is an astonishing the late Count Tolstoi, Mr. Tez, W. L, Carter, F. B. L. Bowcountry drapers and farmers go
Kouzminsky said:
ley, Dr Pearse, Assistant M. O. unanswered for days on and. "He never liked the idea of H. and Dr. F. Clark, M. O. H. While the ice holds, business must "Mr. Kouzminsky," when inter-
Mr. J. M. viewed by a representative of the aeroplanes, and although I spent who was acting as secretary to take a back seat.
Hongkong Telograph" said: my summer vacations for the Board in the absence through Barrie, in the "Little Minister," "To fly has always been my twenty two years with him sickness of Mr. Bowen Rowlands. hits off very cleverly the passin ambition, and as a boy I used and my aunt, the countess, A letter was read from the for curling which seizes even longingly to watch the birds as could never get him to even government relative to the por doctors and clergymen. We have they dipped and soared, wheeled listen to the feasibility and mits for obtaining building ourselves known a minister who and swang,-80 perfectly at caso great possibilities of air materials and turf from the was a keen curler and who wore, to the air. Thoa when aeroplanes, machine.
notice.
Infant's Body Found.
two months old, has. been found. on some vacant ground at Tai Kok Teai.
The body of a tant, about
Left for Home.
Among the passengers who left by the s.s. Siberia yesterday, was Mr. Donald Macdonald, who is going fomo vis Siberia."
Hongkong's New Peruvian Consul.
The King has been pleased to approve of Senor Don Manuel Domingo Torteono as Consul of Pern at Hongkong.
Street Gambling.
A street gambler was fined $2 or in default five daya, by Mr. C. D. Melbourne, at the Police
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Dumped on the Hillside The body of a child aged two years has been found on a hill- side at Yaumati. Death was due to natural causes.
Yachting,
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"In Russia I have given flights in eighty-five cities, using regular Bloriot Monoplane, with a 50 H. P. Gnome engine, that gave excellent results. I flew at St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kief, Odessa, Warsaw, all over Poland and the Caucasus, and cries crossed the length and breath of Siberia,"
Future Plans.
"
Pokfulum Catchment area.
on the ico, a bonnet with broad
monoplures, hi-planes were built "I don't want you to fly he Mr. Bowley, dealing with flaps which came down over the and tried, I, too, wished to try said to me, not, once, but ofton; the letter, remarked that the ears. When the excitement rose, hand at it, and you will for-los hommes ne sont pas des cor-Board would rather put it that ho tied the flaps tightly down so my
because the Wator Authority was that he might not hear any more“ give my saying that I bave had beaux!' (men are not crowe!)" phenomenal successes.
After my uncle's death, the building authority and also than he could help of the obser took one of my machines and Director of Public Works, the vations made. Curling is a game wont down to fly for my aunt Board had not the same confid- that is played with rare spirit— She was mach pleased, and said once in this combined official as and a clergyman has to be careful. that she had never expected to the government, judging from The Theosophists.
the manner in which this gentlo-We published yesterday the re- see such a thing possible."
Mr Kouzminsky has two ma-man, who combined in the one port of an action brought against chines with him, one of which was person the offices of Wator Au- the notorious Mrs. Annie Besant used by him in his numerous thority, Building Authority, and by one of her disciples, from which flights in Russia. He also has Director of Public Worka, had it would appear that theosophy two mechanica, one's Frenchman, issued permits for the taking of tampers not only with the minds the other a Russian. These, with building material and the de- but also with the pockets of its Mr Kouzminsky's secretary and positing of building refuse within victims. The British Government manager, complete the party- the Pokfulum Catchment area. has begun a war.against quacks | They expect to remain here ten If the official was the Water Au- in medicine; it has also given the days, and are staying at the Hong-thority only, he would certainly fortune-telling and crystal-gazing kong Hotel.
issue none of these permite and fraternity pretty clearly to under- The mechanical birds" are to it was the fact that he was also stand that its members may not. be stowed away in a godown an- D.P.W. and Building Authority pick pockets with impunity; and til needed."
which led him to act against this encourages us to hops that what he, the speaker, believed some of the religious charlatans ENROLLED AS SOLICITOR. was his best judgment were he will be given their turn next. If solely water authority. It was ell the low will not put a stop to This afternoon in the Supreme very well for the Government to blasphemous swindles that are Court before the Chief Justice, say that the risk of containination being daily practised on feeble- Mr. W. Rees Davies K.C. an was finitesimal but if it was pos-minded people by the leaders of application made on behalf of Mr. sible to avoid risk altogether, why the over-increasing "seats," one" Richard Chamberlain Faithfull of should it be incurred unne is tempted to wish to seo society 35 Queen's Road Central for bis cessarily ? It was suggested that take the law into its own hands, admission to practice in the because London water supply and deal out summary justice. Courts of Hongkong. Mr. Faithfull, supply was drawn from an orea Sen Training.
Mr. Kouzminsky's achieve ments are well known in the United States, and in speaking of his future plans, he said
We have received the Hong- "I have come here to Hongkong, kong Corinthian yacht club'e in the hope of making some ex- hand book of rulos, sailing direc-hibition, flights, but I do not as tions, etc, for season 1912-13.
get know whether the Authorities **Returned.
will permit me to do so.
1 Captain A. McMunn, R.A.M.C., who proceeded to North China in medical charge of troops on 12th November, returned to Hongkong
on the let instant.
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Rough Weather,
. The s. 8. Anhui reports that on her trip from Shanghai strong gale, heavy sea from the north- ward, overcast and rainy weatlier were experienced.."
Match Abandoned. Tue cricket match. which was to have been played to-day, between the R. A. and the rest of the Garrison had to be abandoned on account of the weather.
Appointment.
The Secretary of State for the Colonies has appointed the Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax to be Registrar- General in the place of the Hon. Mr. Browin, C. M. G., retired.
Woman and Percussion Caps
Mr. O. D. Melbourne, at the Police Court, this morning, fined a woman $10 or in default four- teen days, for being in unlawful possession of 200 percussion
сарв.
My last flights were made at Makden, Tientsin, and Paking. and I think that I am the first aviator who has seen from the air the Imperial Palaces at Peking. and who, from a height, has had a
very close sight of the Forbidden City.
"Oh, it was beautiful," the Bird-Man continued: "I was gliding along in a stendy air circling round and round over the seemingly endless "number of Courts within Courts. I should estimate that about fifty Princes were watching" me, and it was amusing to see the expression, of their faces as I did the 'vol plane for their benefit!
A Diplomatic Reply. "That which interested me the most," Mr. Kouzminsky continued
"was the almost intimate eight
Whom the gods wish to destroy, they firat drivo mad. present it is not quite clear whether the designs of the Immortals on China and the Chinese are of a destructive or of a merely corrective, chastening and finally strengthening order. Manifestly it is unfair for onlookers to pass judgment upon any political movement until time has allowed it to be seen in just perspective. All the same, it is next to impossible for the outsider to notice certain aspects of the Purchased Children Missing. .Chinese revolution without experiencing foelings that clamour to A woman, of Hortland Street express themselves in verbal comment. That it is possible for a that hor two adopted children one Yaumati,has reported to the police revolt to take place without loss of dignity to the movers in it, or nged eleven and the other twelve, without such acts of folly or cruelty as alienate would-be sym- for which she had paid $130 and pathisers, we know from our own history; the English revolution of $140, are missing, 1688 and the American Declaration of Independence are cases in point. These, however, are exceptions; more often, the first Frenching, a man was fined $250 or in
At the Police Cours, this morn-gation." Revolution with all its ghastly brutality, its blood-madness and default three months, for being subsequent corruption, audacity, extravagance and setting of in unlawful possession of a quan- beggara on horseback, may be taken as a fair type."
tity of opium. Three others were fined from $4 to $15.
Opium Possession,
Street Sleepers' Quarrel. A man who said he slept in the street, has, according to the police report, been removed to the hospital suffering from injuries
Automatic Pistols.“
The application was made by Mr. Eldon Potter, instructed by Mr. Crowther Smith.
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we understand, has practised in which was liable to pollation, Only last week we commented London for 20 years...
therefore Hongkong should have on the need of more systematic its water supply also drawn from effort in the training of lads for an area liable to pollution. Ele the sea.. To-day comes a telegram thought that would not commendatating that Lord Furness has The application was to have itself to the Board. After show, bequeathed a sum of £30,000 to heon made this morning, but the tag the diasimilarity between the found na trafifution in which to matter was dealt with in Cham-Thames valley and the Hongkong train boys for the mercantile bors, and this afternoon a formal source of water supply, Mr. Bowley marine. This is indeed good motion was made for Mr. Faith-went on to say, that it had been news, and will assurally gladden urged that it was impossible to the honris of those who have year full's admission. application under section 1 of the grounds of necessity and conven- egrinus attention to this matter. Mr. Potter anid: This is an grant what the Board, wanted on in and year out advocated more that I had of their 'Holy of Holies Legal Practitioner's Ordinance ience. The only bardship that it has been wisely pointed out temple, that is on a tiny island that Mr. Riobard Chamberlain existed; to his mind, was that the that though it has been common. Faithfull, 1 solicitor of the military authority and certain knowledge for many years that in the middle of a bake in the Supreme Court England, should be who owned property on the fringe the number of British soamen on Forbidden City."
The next day, President Yuan-admitted a solicitor of this honour of the catchment area would incur British boats has steadily dealin- shi-kai formally asked the British Court to the practice of the Court. slight additional expense in coolie eri, the public has not given Ambassador, Sir John Jordan, if The usual formalities of the case hire. No one had any right to thought to the further point have been complied with, and Mr. claim a permit and no one had that there has been a seriome in Europe aeroplanes were per Russ has filed an affidavit of iden- any right to complain if the permite absence of expert knowledge mitted to fly where they would.
tity.
already granted were taken away among the decreasing body. ed that he was at a loss as to re Sir John diplomatically answer-
His Lordship: I have had an and he therefore submitted the In this connection it is worth gulations of the traffic of the air;
"That this board desires to enl education is provided for because when he had left Europe to take up his present post,
there cessary formalities have been com-place on record its dissent from every trade in the United King was no such things as aerial Davi.plied with. Mr. Faithfall I have the policy of the Government in dom, including even that of wait- leasure in admitting you to prac-sanctioning the issue of permits ers, there is at present rin tice in this Court and to be enrol-which increase the risk of con satisfactory grant for technical led as solicitor.
tamination of the Pokfulam water education in seamanship för deck. supply and that a copy of this bands, with the exception of a few HUMAN HAIR CASE.
resolution be forwarded to the small contributions from one or Government."
two County Councils, while the The case was continued this. Mr. Carter said that in the grants from Governmentaro small afternoon in the Supreme Court, absence of Dr. Fitzwilliams who, in amount and limited in applica before the Chief Justice Mr. We understol, intended to second tion. In view of these facts the Rees Davies K. C., in which, Chan the motion, he would have mush splendid bequest of the late Lord Po-kong trading as the Ohi pleasue in doing so. He would Furnesscomes at a most opportune Cheong firm, dealers in human hair like to put one question to the moment, and though it does not sued Hu Kwan Shuri the former vice president which he could do away with the necessity for compradore of Messrs. Heuser answer when he replied to the more substantial annual Govern Eberias & Co., to recover the sum apeeches made. A few years ago ment grants, yet it helps in of $5000 odd being the balance some soldiers, he believed, camped solving a very big serions problem...
Heuser, Eberius & Co., at the re- promptly ejected. If he applied "Telegraph" that the brilliant alleged to be due for human hair without permission in the Tytam An Aristocracy of Contemplation sold and delivered, to Messrs Catchment area and they were It may be seen from last night's quest of the defendant for permission to camp within Frenchman who writes under, the as Mr. Eldon Potter, instructed would that permission be granted? having a slap at our friends scross Mr. C. G. Alabaster, with whom the Pokfulum Catchment area name of "Pierre Loti" has been' by Mr. W. E.L.Shenton of Messrs. To his mind, there seemed to be the Pacific America has lost her Deacon Looker and Deacon, ap- little difference between camping soul, he says, and neade an “ Aris-- peared for the plaintiff and Mr. Ir. there and allowing coolies to tocracy of contemplation to offset
.Jenkin, instructed by Mr. W. B. spend a day there. Continuing, the all-pervading materialiam Hind for the defence, Mr. Carter quoted the words of a We don't know what an aristo The concluding stage, was general who said that there were cracy of contemplation may be,;
affidavit in this case, and the ne- opportunity of examining the following resolation to the board: remembering that whereas techni-"
Continuing, our infermant said: kow, and I believe that I am the "After Poking, I flew at Han- first aviator to fly in the interior
of China.
"I was asked by the Chineso Minister of War to become an aviation instructor for a Chinese military aviation corps, but I was not permitted to do so by the Russian government.
Of what actually happened when the Chinese rebellion was at its height, as well as of the final outcome of it all, it is far too early to speak; but it is at lonet possible to seo, and to put, a value upon, the more immediate results of the first phase of that rebellion; the more so that son of the results lie not far away from our own to his head, alleged of have beso thresholds. T Hongkong Chinese-or some of them, have been cansed by a relative who also
Finding Out. At Wachang I was not al encouraged by the success of the revolutionaries to think that they slept in the street..
lowed to fly because the Chinese oan upset law and order in a British Colony; the inhabitants of the
were afraid that I would discover great towns of Chin, leaning on the same slender reed of encourage- as a steward on the "Monteagle, informant laughed, as it goes! A Chinese who was described their fortifications, and our ment, are gasping to teach the Russians a lesson; and now the was fined $250, or in default Every nation line something that Chinese of West Borneo are killing tax-payers, posting reactionary three months, by Mr. O. D. Mel- it wants to hide, but the Bird Man placards and, to all appearances; defying Dutch governmental bourne, at the Police Court, for will find everything some or later authority. If all this be not a part of the madness that precedes two automatic pistols. Detective When naked as to his record in
boing in unlawful posession of it is only a question of time!" dissolution, then what is it?
Sergeant Grant arrested him.altitude, Mr Kouzminsky said: The Chinese of Hongkong have at least this oxcuse for their
Opium Divati,
"I have reached 1,000 metres folly: that they know John Bull to be a long-suffering creature who Of fifteen smokers of opium without really trying; some day will put up with innumerable gaat-atings before finally taking found in a divan in Sai Yuen shall go higher. I was taught in action; perhaps, too, thoy realise that Britishors of to-day are more teen were fined $2 each on in deadded; that of Monsieur Bleriotrenched yesterday, when speeches two kinds of sense, common sense wo have no time for cant phrases
Lane, by Sergeant Adlington, four rigid, school, you know he tolerant than were their fathers who orushed the Indian Mutiny fault five daya by Mr G. D. Mel- at Etampes, in France; and after by counsel were commenced. To and Royal Engineers sense. It in this office; but if this aristo with eo firm a hand. But to challenge Russian authority! And bourne, at the Police Court, this that I studied under Monsieur Le address on behalf of the plaintiff, the Public Works Department needs, by all means let her have day Mr. Potter resumed his final saemed to him that the sense of oracy business is what orion Datoh! Perhaps the kindest thing we can wish the wrong-headed morning, and one who was charg Blanc, and received my master's supporters of this new republic is that they may persevere in their ed with keeping was fined $100 certificate as an aviator in 1910, andheld that the balance of prob- was similar to that of the Royal it; let her have anything or every folly against two Governments whose little fingers are thicker than or in default two months. Since then I have flown every of his clients.
abilities was strongly in favour Engineers.
thing that will knock out of her The Hon. Mr. Chatham said the idea that bustle and dollars British loins, where the remorseless dealing out of punishments is
∙Pawned the Shoes,
where," pay
The ones was procee
that the matter has been before are the only things in the world Inspector Cameron of Yeumati, When the mattor of accidents
eding
the board over and over again. worth living for. According to birdman replied
The suggestion of Mr. Bowley's" Pierre Loti, the American lives was that there were other in "a constant atmosphere
I
Bar dredger for Taku..
as
concerned; their troubles will be over the sooner. The vulgaris charged 'a man before Mr. C. D. was suggested, the well known we want to press.
swelled head" is the only torm applicable to a people who, on the Melbourne, at the Police Court, strength of having defeated the ill-equipped and scarcely martial this morning with atoaling a The only fall that I had was forces of the Manchus, think to hold their own against Russia pair of shoes from a boarding just outside of St. Petersburg The new bar dredger, which areas available outside the Pok ile and excitement regiment of whose Cossacks would sweep North China as clean as house. He had pawned the shoes when I was making an exhibition has been ordered by the Haiho falum catolment aros from which upon chronic dyspepsia ever locusts left a harvest field. And the same delicate epithet may and was found with the pawn- fight for His Majesty the Czarow channel across Taka Bar, is tained with vor Jittle
Conservancy to drodze out, the building materials could be on levitab reathenia! legitimately be used of the silly riotors who are anxions to thrashtiöket in his noggession. He was and it happened because, as I was expected to be delivered at Lianerpense and in
onal hard sayi aste lieve the testimony of
deepest thinkers, it is
the rons of the Dutch East Indies. We advise them to
sent to gaol for three weeks and endeavouring to make a specta Fördered four hours stocke
cular vol plane, a su
Asin on August 1, 1913,
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